.. but my hard drive won't shut up. Looking in ROX at the directory where my savefile is on the hard drive and hitting refresh again and again I see the savefile is being updated at least every 2 seconds.

Htop shows plenty of spare memory.

So in Puppy Event Manager I put the save interval to 0 (never save). No change. Rebooted. No change. Put the save interval to 9999. No change. Rebooted. No change.

Any ideas? Thanks!Last edited by Fingers on Mon 27 May 2013, 14:59; edited 1 time in total

Because you are in PUPMODE=12, your savefile is mounted, so it is constantly in use. A regular flash drive install uses PUPMODE=13 where the save file resides in a separate layer and is only written to periodically.

1. I just finished [a couple of minutes back, successfully] doing the following plus some other stuff to Precise-5.6.
I'm booting using a CD-RW with the pupsave on an internal HDD.
a. Begin with this lot.
[Do Items 4->(if your pupsave is on your internal HDD), then 1, then 2, then 3]
I like holding the pupsave on an internal HDD [it's faster than a Flash Drive], and using item 4 [in the page linked above] to have it treated as though on a Flash Drive.

b. Having completed the above, proceed to HERE to see the small code change to add to the code shown HERE.
This makes "Don't Save..." the default, when asked at shut-down whether you wish "to save or not to save".

2. The beauty of the above is that:
Session changes are only saved back to the pupsave IF and WHEN you choose.
a. During the session:
There is only a save IF/WHEN you choose to do it manually by clicking the "Save..." icon.

b. At shutdown/reboot:
You are asked whether you want "to save or not to save", and the default [click OK to accept] is "Don't save...".Last edited by Sylvander on Mon 27 May 2013, 19:09; edited 1 time in total

This will be perfect for the netbook I'm getting next week that I just want to be a word processor. I'll save my work as and when and probably rarely save the session once I get everything how I want it. This was exactly what I wanted a few days ago when I'd never even heard of Puppy Linux.

Running from RAM rocks! It's always exasperated me that no matter the incredible leaps in hardware technology the software manages to keep it pushed to the limits. Great if you're a gamer, but to do simple stuff, why have a machine that struggles? Puppy addresses this brilliantly.

Now play with the suspend to RAM function with lid closed, and if you get into the habit of closing lid between uses, battery life can last about a week. On my 64bit notebook its about 7% per day loss of battery with lid down on fully MAXed out RAM on my older 32bit and a older version of puppy, packed it up on and had it in storage for a little over a month so I was surprised when lifting lid and puppy was is running in RAM.

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